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Borobodur Adventure (1)

By zweiya under Photojournal, Travelogue | Your Comment | Tags: mandala, stupa

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How Clean is Meat?

By zweiya under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | 16 Comments | Tags: Environmentalism, ignorance, Vegetarianism & Veganism

A colleague was urging another colleague to give up pork by claiming that pigs eat everything and anything, including their own faeces. I told her that’s probably the case for many animals, as their living conditions before slaughter are horrifying – cramped up with little space to move about, stepping on the waste of one [...]



We are Works in Progress

By jianxie under Odds & Ends, Quotations | Your Comment | Tags: Dukkha, God, Pure Land

If there is an almighty perfect creator, the universe would be a perfect work of art. If the universe is not a perfect work of art,  there is no almighty perfect creator. – Stonepeace Some see the universe as a completely perfect work of art, but they are only looking at the goodness in life - beautiful [...]



Belated Mother’s Day Tributes

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 8 Comments | Tags: Bodhisattva, compassion

Guanyin to Me My Mother is Guanyin to me because she prays to Guanyin for me. She isn’t really aspiring to embody her virtues.  She isn’t really chanting or meditating. She just runs through a wishlist of wanting our family to be well and happy. She still is Guanyin-ish to me, because she still embodies compassion [...]



Same Love Different Expressions

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends, Photojournal | Your Comment | Tags: compassion, equanimity

During a Dharma discussion at Awareness Place (after screening of ‘The Woodsman’), a participant remarked about how difficult is was for her to express the same compassion for those she comes across in a class. She was struggling to practise equanimity for all. I answered that having equal compassion does not equate to treating all [...]



When A Sacrifice Isn’t One

By Shen Shi'an under Comics & Graphic Novels, Quotations | Your Comment | Tags: Bodhisattva, sacrifice

In ‘Cairo’ by G. Willow Wilson & M.K. Perker: Asaad: How much is too much to sacrifice? For someone you love?… Yanni: I think there aren’t any sacrifices. There are only choices. I think if you give something up for someone, it won’t feel like a sacrifice. It’ll feel like the right thing to do. [...]



Purge ‘Em All!

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment |

If taking a leak, to purge our physical wastes is so much a relief… What a greater relief it would be to purge our mental wastes! Related Article: What a Relief! http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/05/what-a-relief 



Infinite Secret Gaps

By Shen Shi'an under Comics & Graphic Novels | Your Comment | Tags: mindfulness, rebirth

Batman, as a comic book character, was created in 1939. That makes 2009 the 70th anniversary of his creation! It’s amazing that thousands of tales have been based upon Batman, with countless revisitations to his past, uncovering previously unmentioned fragments of his otherwise unrecorded virtual history. What’s more remarkable that most of these stories can [...]



Working Towards Perfection of Generosity

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: compassion, equanimity, generosity

Something written for an interreligious publication… A Buddhist charity was giving out aids to the needy in terms of cash and kind for disaster relief. What was surprising to reporters was that various individuals from all walks of life were helped despite differences in race or religion with no questions asked. Most pleasantly surprised were [...]



Buddha Up Buddha Down

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 6 Comments | Tags: intention, reverence

I helped to move a huge framed Buddha picture by a friend’s van. While placing it in the back of the van, I laid it face down. My friend remarked that it might be disrespectful – as the downward direction denotes lowliness. I replied that I placed it that way to protect the picture, as [...]



From a Big Bad Wolf to ‘The Woodsman’

By Shen Shi'an under Movies/TV | 2 Comments | Tags: repentance

Walter, an ex-convict charged for pedophilia, experiences apprehensive uncertainty as he re-enters the society 12 years later. He is seemingly reborn, but with repercussions of his past, with his personal hell carried over by unresolved karma. Even if he gives himself a second chance, will others do the same? Just because one was a criminal, [...]



What is Enough?

By Shen Shi'an under Quotations | 2 Comments | Tags: contentment

If you never know what is enough, you will never have enough. – Stonepeace  Look out for Stonepeace quotes on Twitter soon! 



What a Relief!

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 2 Comments | Tags: Anatta

What a relief… that there is… no ‘one’ to be relieved.



Naked ‘R Us

By Shen Shi'an under Odds & Ends | 1 Comment | Tags: emptiness, karma

Naked we come Naked we are Naked we go We come empty of possessions. Stripped even of ‘self’. Even our past karma is empty of fixed nature. We live empty of possessions. Stripped even of ‘self’. Even our present karma is empty of fixed nature. We die empty of possessions. Stripped even of ‘self’. Even [...]



Poll Analysis: Should Rats that Wreck Havoc in a Marketplace be Culled?

By Shen Shi'an under Poll | 7 Comments | Tags: killing

Here is an analysis of the poll question ‘Should Rats that Wreck Havoc in a Marketplace be Culled?’ As of today, the results are: 35% : Hmmm, I dunno 33% : No way! 32% : Yes, definitely! This poll question refers to the recent case of a local (Singaporean) open wet market that was discovered to be [...]



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